The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-27
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS.


MORAL AND RELIGIOUS.
Men who live without religion live
always IN a tumultuary and restless
state.
An evil intention perverts tho best
actions and makes them sins.
Truth is the object of our under
standing, as good is Of our will; and
the understanding can No moro be
lighted with a lie than the will can
choose an apparent evil.
How much he knew Of the human
heart, who first called God our Fa-
therl
It is not disgraceful to any one who
is poor to confess his poverty; but the
not exerting ones sell to escape pow
erty is disgraceful.-Pericle.
The only doctrinal truth which Sol.
ONION insisted on, when hi took the
whole world for his barren text, was,
that "all is vanity. bishop Sander
son.
When thou art obliged to speak, be
sure to speak the truth; for equivoca.
ton is half way to lying, and lying is
the whole way to hell.-William Penn.
Every increase of knowledge may
possibly render depravity more de-
PRAYED, as we'll as it may increase the
strength OF virtue. It is in itsel. only
power, and its value depends on it's
application.
Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia,
will sail this month for Europe. He
will preach the sermon on the occa-
sion of the laying of the corner stone
OF the new St. Patrick's basilica in
Rome.
You never get to the end Of Christ's
words; there is something in them al
ways behind. They pass into prov.
cribs, into laws, into doctrines, into
consultations, into hopes; but they
never pass away; and after all the use
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exhausted.-Dean Stanley.
A recent publication is an illustrat-
ed Japanese edition OF "Pilgrim's Pro-
gress." In it Christian has a close
shaved Mongolian head, Vanity Fair
is a feast of lanterns with popular
a~musements, the dungeon of Giant
Despair is one of those large wooden
cages in which eastern criminals are
confined, and the angels waiting to
receive the pilgrims on the farther
side OF the bridgeless river are dressed
in Yokohama fashion.
1 will tell you good proverb. I
wish you would always remember it.
"God has given us eyelids as we'll az
eyes," Do you understand it? What
are eyelids for? Not to see Your eyes
are to 9 with. Your eyelids not to
see. Remember, there are q great
many things in life-bad things-and
God has given us eyelids that we may
not see them, as well as eyes to look
at the good things. Use your eyelids.
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see them.-Rev. J. Vaughan.
Tho Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott. editor
of the Christian Union, has been en-
gagged to supply the pulpit at Ply
mouth Church pending the selection of
a permanent pastor. and he will begin
his duties in November. This step has
been taken upon the recommendation
of the Advisory Committee of the
church, appointed last spring to take
charge ofthe matter of securing a sue
cessor to MI. Beecher. In their report
to the Board of Deacons, the commit
tee says that DIR. Abbott has not and
will not become g. candidate for the
permanent passionate.
Unity, Unitarian, of Chicago, thus
answers a correspondent who signs
himself "Christian Agnostic:" An in
finite number of things may be yet I'm.
known, but is it not because God is
really and truly movable that we
may have any relation to Him as
moral beings, and is it not solely in
the light of this divine truth about
God that we can see any reason to
call ourselves His children? ITO fol-
low on to know the Lord"I take to
be the dictate of reason and based up.
on the truth that We are made in His
image and capable of growing ever
more into the knowledge Of Him.
The Rev. DR.. Kuhns, a Lutheran
minister of Westminster, Md, went
out to Omaha some years ago and in
vested 5000 in real estate in the sub
urbs OF that city. He paid taxes on
it regularly and would gladly have
parted with it for it's original cost a
humber Of times since then. He was
compelled to hold on, however, and
the recent boom in that section has
made him a rich man in spite of him.
self. He will move out west, he says,
and devote the rest of his life to do
ing good without pay.
The advantages and disadvantages
of organic union among the various
branches Of the Church OF Christ in
this country have been pretty fully
discussed during the past year. The
net result of the discussion, so far as
any definite result has been reached
at all, is an agreement to differ. The
MISUNDERSTANDING, political and
liturgical-to organic uuion, are too
many and too great to be overcome,
and it is a question whether such a
union Is altogether to be desired.